Chapter 1As with most important, if not a little dreadful, events in her life, Ivy Fairchild was early. She sat in the driver’s side of her rented car for fifteen minutes at the gas station just outside of Niagara Falls. She took out the invitation from her glove compartment. Though she’d read it at least six dozen times since its arrival at the beginning of the month, she checked it again now. Her mother had requested their presence in fancy script for an official family meeting at six o’clock Sharp in the Huntress Meeting Room at the local Bridal Veil Falls hotel. It was barely 4 o’clock and Bridal Veil Falls was only fifteen minutes away. Ivy tucked the invitation away with a loud sigh. Why had she thought that the drive from her condo in Upstate New York would take over four hours?
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